Gas explosion at Mexico City children’s hospital kills 2, injures 53

A gas truck explosion outside a Mexico City maternity hospital has left at least two people dead and 53 others injured, including more than 20 children, according to city authorities.

The initial death toll
was put at seven, but Adrian Rubalcava, head of the Cuajimalpa
borough in Mexico City where the facility is located, later said
that only two people lost their lives in the accident. One of
those killed was a child, while another was a woman around 40
years of age.

Rubalcava explained that the miscount occurred after several
unconscious people who were retrieved from the debris were
mistaken for
dead.

The bodies were found in the debris of the collapsed building,
according to local media reports. Between 30 to 40 percent of the
structure had reportedly collapsed following the blast.